Indian police re-arrested Friday a woman who has been on hunger strike for 14 years to protest against human rights abuses, just two days after she was freed on court orders. ‘She was arrested for attempted suicide,’ lawyer Khaidem Mani,...
Hamas said it shot dead 11 suspected informants for Israel on Friday, a day after an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Gaza Strip killed three top Hamas military commanders. The Hamas-run website Al Rai said the 11 were...
ULFA leader Anup Chetia, currently incarcerated in Bangladesh, has reportedly expressed his willingness to be repatriated to India where he is wanted for murder, abductions and extortion. Indian High Commission’s official JP Singh met Chetia on Thursday at the Kashimpur...
Bank of America shares jumped 4 per cent Thursday despite the bank being hit with a record nearly $17 billion fine for selling high-risk mortgage bonds as safe investments. The settlement with the US Justice Department and other authorities over...
Berlin is suing one of Switzerland's largest banks in its bid to recuperate hundreds of million euros that went missing during the reunification of East and West Germany, the bank said. Julius Baer told AFP it was being sued by...
Dogged by pilot shortage, Biman Bangladesh Airlines is planning to appoint fresh pilots for the smooth operation of its flights. ‘At a recent meeting, we’ve discussed the issue and asked Biman to appoint fresh pilots for its fleet,’ Civil Aviation...
US casual-wear retail giant Gap Inc says it will open 40 stores in India, calling the expansion ‘an important next step’ in its global growth strategy. The San Francisco-based company, known for its relaxed-style denim and other attire, is the...
Tokyo investors will be watching the crises in Ukraine and Iraq while focusing on key economic indicators in Japan and the United States next week. ’Japanese stocks extended their winning streak this week partially because geopolitical concerns were subdued,’ said...
Spark, New Zealand's largest telecommunications company posted a 93.3 per cent rise in annual net profit on Friday, with one-off items preventing the carrier slipping into negative territory. The company, which changed its name from Telecom Corp. earlier this month,...
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal has expressed her hope that relations between Bangladesh and the United States would see a new height during the tenure of new Bangladesh ambassador. ‘Based on the...
As American TV viewers await the Emmy Awards honoring last year's programs, the new season opened this summer and it is rich in stars, horror and mystery. The glitzy names being served up include the likes of Steven Soderbergh, Clive...
The London Stock Exchange Group's net profits surged by nearly 50 per cent in the first quarter on the back of a resurgence in stock market flotations, it said on Friday. Earnings after taxation soared to £52 million ($86 million,...
More than 191,000 people have died in Syria, United Nations rights chief Navi Pillay said Friday, hitting out at ‘international paralysis’ on the nearly three-and-a-half year conflict. Between March 2011 and April this year, 191,369 people were killed in war-ravaged...
National Professor Dr MR Khan has urged the pharmaceutical companies to produce all kind of anti-cancer drugs to help cancer patients in the country. ‘The pharmaceutical companies should produce all kinds of anti cancer drugs to help the thousands of...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced plans to introduce fingerprint scanners at supermarkets in a bid to stop food smugglers he blames for the crippling shortages gripping the country. Price controls in Venezuela keep food and other basic goods up...
The German government said Friday it has given the go-ahead to power giant RWE's sale of its Dea oil and gas unit to a Russian-controlled investment fund. ‘We've examined the case intensively and have raised no objection,’ a spokeswoman for...
The body of a victim of sunken launch ‘Pinak-6’ was recovered from Sugandha River in Dakkhin Mogar village under Nalchhiti Upazila in Jhalakati district on Friday, 18 days after the launch capsized in Padma River in Munshiganj district. The deceased...
Workers at South Korea's two largest automakers went on a limited strike Friday to press their demands for wage reforms, their unions said. Unionists at Hyundai Motor Co. and its subsidiary Kia Motors Corp. downed tools for four hours. They...
In separate incidents, three people, including a woman and her son, were electrocuted in Pabna and Rajshahi districts on Thursday and Friday. In Pabna, the woman and her son died from electrocution at Saragopalpur village on the outskirts of the...
Royal Bank of Canada on Friday reported a bigger-than-expected increase in quarterly earnings, driven by strong results from its wealth management and capital markets divisions. Canada's largest bank, as widely expected, also boosted its quarterly dividend by about 6 per...
Bangladesh can manufacture Refused Derived Fuel (RDF), alternative to coal, from soiled plastics currently disposed off as municipal garbage in the landfill sites in a large quantity. According to a latest baseline survey on the potential of RDF, the country...
A paramilitary soldier was killed in an exchange of fire with militants who entered Pakistani territory from Afghanistan on Friday, the military said. The incident happened in Muslam Bagh sector in southwestern Baluchistan province near the Afghan border. ’About 70...
The Pentagon violated US law when it controversially swapped a soldier held in captivity for five years in Afghanistan for five Taliban detainees without giving lawmakers sufficient notice, congressional investigators found Thursday. The Pentagon used $988,400 of its wartime funding...
The deputy commander of Colombia’s Armed Forces will head a military commission in charge with negotiating a bilateral ceasefire with the FARC. General Javier Florez will lead the commission of military personnel meeting first with FARC in Cuba on Friday....
National Guard troops withdrew Thursday from a US town gripped by nearly two weeks of protests over the fatal police shooting of a black teenager, as new details emerged about the white officer who pulled the trigger. Demonstrations in the...
New budget airline Jetstar Hong Kong said Friday it has sold a total of six of its aircraft because it is taking longer than expected to get a licence to operate. The airline, which is a joint venture between Australia's...
The BNP has alleged that the prime minister is trying to influence the trial of the Aug 21 grenade attack case with her statements. Criticising the prime minister’s statements on Aug 21, BNP chairperson’s Adviser Khandker Mahbub Hossain said Friday,...
Prime minister’s IT Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has alleged that the BNP is a party of terrorists and said it should be brought to justice. “As I've said repeatedly, the BNP is a party of terrorists. They should be...
India's cabinet Wednesday cut the minimum export price for onions by 30 per cent, relaxing some of the curbs imposed on overseas shipments in the past two months to augment domestic supplies and rein in soaring prices. Exports will now...
There has been a marked decline in import through Bangladesh's largest land port, Benapole, during the last financial year. Stakeholders offer many reasons for this happening -- volatile political situation before the last national polls, a slowdown in business, bumper...
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